Am Wednesday 01 October 2008 22:50:27 schrieb Bob Proulx:
> Andreas Richter wrote:
> > schrieb Bob Proulx:
> > My swap-partition is 4G big. I tested hibernate with a 8G swap file and
> > it doesn't work either.
>
> Sigh. Oh well...
>
> > > To get to 4G all that is needed is CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y and that is the
> > > default in stock Debian kernels.
> >
> > I can't find CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G in /boot/config-2.6.26-1-amd64. So it is
> > compiled in? I think not.
>
> AFAIK both HIGHMEM4G and the PAE extensions (BIGMEM) are 32-bit x86
> only. For 64-bit amd64 neither of those apply. When I heard BIGMEM I
> assumed we were talking about 32-bit x86. Sorry. I didn't read early
> enough in the thread.
>
> > I know apt-cache and the search option. But the search doesn't find any
> > result. I use lenny at the moment. Are there a bigmem kernel in sid?
>
> Since you are using amd64 those don't apply to you and are not in your
> architecture specific depot. You would see them on an i386
> architecture machine.
Sorry. My fault. Have forgot to write that my system is an amd64.
> I only have "fud" (unsubstantiated memory from several years ago) that
> hibernation hasn't been completely working on 64-bit systems. You may
> be tripping into one of the areas that hasn't been well traveled yet.
> You might try looking at the notes from suspend2 / TuxOnIce mailing
> list and see what resources you can find there. I looked briefly and
> found this thread.
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.swsusp.general/7777
> Subject: Is it possible to have 4GB of RAM on an AMD64 ?
>
> That lead me to these wrapup messages:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.swsusp.general/7801
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.swsusp.general/7802
Thanks for the links. I think i'll wait for a never kernel and try it again.
Cheers,
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